NI was seeded in 2014, when Northcott created a small agile team dedicated to finding new and innovative ways to support people with disability.
We use design-led approaches and methods to improve the quality of life of people with disability and those who support them. We work alongside our parent company, Northcott, to better understand and explore the complex environment of disability support and identify opportunities for innovation.
We believe design can help us imagine and build better worlds. We use it to explore and understand complexity and to propose, prototype and build interventions.
Relationships are at the core of disability support. We use design approaches to understand these relationships and design services and tools to enhance and support them.
We use a contextual approach that considers not just the humans we are designing with and for, but the contexts in which they live and work, the environment, sustainability, and the ongoing effects of what we design on all these things.
